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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA74DLD52

1974-01-09 WILLISTON, Florida, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N45TB

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH D-45

Year of manufacture

1956 · 18 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19780927

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A5716E

Registrant of record

GOONEY BIRD GROUP INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N45TB Beech E18S None

Historical record (pre-1982)

NTSB recorded this accident in the pre-1982 coded-field schema — structured fields rather than free-text narrative. Decoded codes use established NTSB single-letter taxonomies; cause factors remain verbatim pending the Form 6120.4 codebook lookup.

Aircraft

BEECH E18S · N45TB

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

WILLISTON MUNI

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

330° / 10 kt

Temp

80° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000BA-391

Total time

4,550 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

540

Age

28

Cause factors

64/C/80 C
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED WRONG RUNWAY RELATIVE TO EXISTING WIND Cause
64/C/28 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER COMPENSATION FOR WIND CONDITIONS Cause
64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
82/L/H L
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table). Each row shows the raw triplet, modifier (Cause / Factor / etc.), category, and specific code.

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 0177. Source file NTSB_1974_3_0177.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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